The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle

This is the second Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel I read recently that brings Holmes together with fictional characters, both with mixed results. Here, the year is 1912, and Watson is visited by an old army friend, Colonel Pickering, who tells him that the young street girl, Eliza Doolittle, who wa......more

This is a highly entertaining story that imagines a mystery that connects Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson with Eliza Doolittle and the men who are trying to teach her. (And some other characters from turn of the century literature you may recognize.) This novel would reward those who are aficionados ......more

This was an enjoyable book that smashed together the characters of Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, and Robert Louis Stevenson, in a quirky mystery full of the main themes of those authors' most famous stories. I give it a hefty recommendation for fans of Victorian literature and British det......more

I simply loved every page of this book. Timothy Miller is a genius! The story follows an ailing Sherlock Holmes and a still faithful John Watson trying to unlock the mystery that is Ms. Eliza Doolittle. There is something strange about the young lady's behavior and her connection to a Mr. Hyde. The b......more